题目内容
Work harder, ________ you’ll make greater progress.
A.but
B.or
C.so
D.and
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“祈使句+and+陈述句”相当于“if引导的条件状语从句的肯定式+主句”构成的复合句,and后面的句子表示一个递进的动作。该句可表达为:If you work harder, you’ll make greater progress. |
Open Letter to an Editor
I had an interesting conversation with a reporter recently --- one who works for you. In fact, he’s one of your best reporters. He wants to leave.
Your reporter gave me a copy of his resume(简历) and photocopies of six stories that he wrote for you. The headlines showed you played them proudly. With great enthusiasm, he talked about how he finds issues(问题), approaches them, and writes about them, which tells me he is one of your best. I’m sure you would hate to lose him. Surprisingly, your reporter is not unhappy. In fact, he told me he really likes his job. He has a great assignment (分工), and said you run a great paper. It would be easy for you to keep him, he said. He knows that the paper values him. He appreciates the responsibility you’ve given him, takes ownership of his profession, and enjoys his freedom.
So why is he looking for a way out?
He talked to me because he wants his editors to demand so much more of him. He wants to be pushed, challenged, coached to new heights.
The reporter believes that good stories spring from good questions, but his editors usually ask how long the story will be, when it will be in, where it can play, and what the budget is.
He longs for conversations with an editor who will help him turn his good ideas into great ones. He wants someone to get excited about what he’s doing and to help him turn his story idea upside down and inside out, exploring the best ways to report it. He wants to be more valuable for your paper. That’s what you want for him, too, isn’t it?
So your reporter has set me thinking.
Our best hope in keeping our best reporters, copy editors, photographers, artists --- everyone --- is to work harder to make sure they get the help they are demanding to reach their potential. If we can’t do it, they’ll find someone who can.
【小题1】What does the writer think of the reporter?
| A.Optimistic. | B.Imaginative. | C.Ambitious. | D.Proud. |
| A.Finding the news value of his stories. | B.Giving him financial support. |
| C.Helping him to find issues. | D.Improving his good ideas. |
| A.An editor. | B.An artist. | C.A reporter. | D.A reader. |
| A.keep their best reporters at all costs |
| B.give more freedom to their reporters |
| C.be aware of their reporters’ professional development |
| D.appreciate their reporters’ working styles and attitudes |
My students often tell me that they don’t have “enough time” to do all their schoolwork.
My reply is often a brief “You have as much time as the president.” I usually carry on a bit about there being twenty-four hours in the day for everyone, and suggest that “not enough time” is not an acceptable explanation of not getting something done.
Once in graduate school, I tried to prove to one of my professors by saying that I was working hard. His answer to me was, “That’s irrelevant (无关的). What’s important is the quality of your work.” Since then I have had time to think carefully about the “hard worker” dodge (诀窍), and I have come to some conclusions — all relevant to the problem of how much time we have.
If you analyze the matter, you can identify two parts of the problem: There is, of course, the matter of “time”, which we can think of as fixed. Then there is the problem of “work” during that time. But, as my professor suggested, it’s not how hard one works but the quality of the product that’s important.
That led me to a new idea: the quality of the work. That concept is perhaps best explained by a sign I once saw on the wall in someone’s office: “Don’t work harder. Work smarter.” There is a lot of sense in that idea.
If you can’t get more time, and few of us can, the only solution is to improve the quality of the work. That means thinking of ways to get more out of the same time than we might otherwise get. That should lead us to an analysis of our work habits. Since “work” for students usually means “homework”, the expression “work habits” should be read as “study habits”.
Then, as a smart student, you will seek to improve those skills that you use in study, chiefly reading and writing. If you learn to read better and write better, there are big benefits that pay off in all your studies.
【小题1】
From the passage, we know that the author is probably ______ .
| A.a poet | B.an educator | C.a novelist | D.an engineer |
We can infer from the 2nd paragraph that we students still _____ .
| A.have enough time | B.can meet the president |
| C.get everything done well | D.should accept the explanation |
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
| A.The author’s students make good use of their time to do all their homework. |
| B.The author tried to tell the professor that he/she (author) had done a good job. |
| C.You can’t improve the quality of the work if you can’t get more time. |
| D.You’ll try to improve your skills in reading and writing if you’re a clever student |
__________ you work harder than before, you will pass this exam.
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A.As soon as |
B.As long as |
C.As if |
D.Even if |